Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Interview with the Correspondent ofThe New York Herald[1]

Published:(Krasnaya Gazeta(Petrograd) No. 84, April 14, 1922 ).

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Inhis talk with the correspondent of the American
newspaperThe New York Heraldon the subject of
the Genoa Conference, Lenin stated:

ThisConference should be guided only by one economic principle. Russia
is well aware of what she can expect from the bourgeois states. The present
state of affairs cannot continue any longer. It is disastrous both for
Russia and for the whole world.

Russiastands in need of trade with the bourgeois states. On the other
hand, the bourgeois governments are well aware that the economic life of
Europe cannot be adjusted without Russia.

However,those who intend to offer humiliating terms to the Russian
delegation at Genoa are deeply mistaken. Russia will not allow herself to
be treated as a vanquished country. If the bourgeois governments try to
adopt such a tone towards Russia they will be committing the greatest
folly.

[1]TheNew York Herald—an American daily, organ of the
Republican Party. Published in New York from 1835 to 1924.